'Loreak' by José María Goenaga and Jon Garaño is chosen by Spain for the shortlist for the Hollywood Academy Award for best film in a foreign language.
Tape was presented at the 2014 San Sebastian Festival with great success and subsequently received two nominations for the Goya Awards including the nomination for best film.
This will be the third time that Spain is represented by a tape not spoken in SpanishThe first time was in 2011 with 'Pan negro' ('Pa negre'), which was spoken in Catalan and the second time a year later when 'Blancanieves', a silent film, was chosen to represent the country. This year the language of the film that will represent Spanish cinema is Basque.
19 nominations are those that Spain has received in the category formerly known as Best Foreign Film at the Oscars, four of those tapes ended up winning the statuette, 'Start again' by José Luis Garci 'in 1983,' Belle époque 'by Fernando Trueba in 1994,' All about my mother 'by Pedro Almodóvar in 2000 and' Sea inside 'by Alejandro Amenábar in 2005, being the country of Spanish-speaking most successful in this category of the Hollywood Academy Awards.
'Loreak' tells the story of tThree women whose lives change when one of them begins to receive flowers weekly from some stranger.